UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 4, 2018. Starting June 1, 2018, Ural Airlines are taking Saratov Airlines’ passengers on their own flights. The offer holds through June 30 provided there are seats available on board, the air carrier’s press service reports. Saratov Airlines’ passengers with valid tickets can fly with Ural Airlines from Krasnoyarsk to Sochi and back and from Kazan to Simferopol and back. ‘To use the option, Saratov Airlines’ customers with valid tickets need to apply to Ural Airlines’ offices at their airports of departure,’ the press service explains. You can get updates on the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 4, 2018. 49.7% of the Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s commission-based profit came from small businesses’ fees in the first quarter of the year, the bank’s press service reports. Based on the bank’s statistical data, 72% of commissions get charged for settlement transactions. The increase in the overall amount mainly has to do with the expansion of the bank’s customer base: the number of companies banking with the UBRD rose by 14.4% in the first quarter of 2018 compared with one year previously. The customers were enticed by appealing terms and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 4, 2018. Ural Airlines are offering reduced-price tickets for Yekaterinburg-Tbilisi-Yekaterinburg flights to be operated in the early fall. According to the air carrier’s press service, the flights will be operated every Monday and Friday starting from October 10, 2018. Prices start from RUR 3,900 (Yekaterinburg-Tbilisi) and RUR 5,000 (Tbilisi-Yekaterinburg), all fees included. ‘Georgia is great in any season, so you can travel there all the year round. Tbilisi is particularly appealing in the fall, with its nice weather, few tourists, and seasonal fruit. The

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 4, 2018. There were 6.4m people in the workforce segment in Ural Federal District in the first quarter of the year, Sverdlovskstat reports. ‘Also, 316,000 people were unemployed but on the lookout for a job; based on the World Labor Organization’s methodology, they are to be categorized as jobless. 71,000 people registered with employment centers as jobless by the end of March 2018,’ the agency says. Local employers placed 120,500 job opening ads with Sverdlovsk Region’s employment centers by the end of March 2018.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 4, 2018. A criminal suit involving a Yekaterinburg resident charged with registering 1,500 foreign nationals fictitiously has been placed with District Verkh-Isetsky Court, Sverdlovsk Region’s public prosecution authorities report. According to the investigative team, the woman allegedly registered foreign nationals as staying/residing in her apartment in Posadskaya St. The accused thus knowingly misrepresented the data on the migrants’ application/registration forms. She is believed to have thus registered 1,349 foreign nationals who did not actually live at her